On Skinny French Ladies:

Thanks, France!

This is problematic. But I love that this is on the national agenda in France!

Thinness in the media has gotten insane, as I’m sure everyone is well aware of. Is it the Government’s place to protect the mental health of (mostly) young women?  I’m not usually huge on censorship. But in this case (especially since it originates in France, couture capital) it could make large strides towards shifting the beauty standard to realistic again. Could be really bad.

On “Family Values”:

Proof that the Pro-Marriage lobby just makes shit up

Really? Single parent households cost us 112 billion dollars? Good thing they made me aware of this on tax day!

Seriously, this is bullshit. My favorite part is when the Institute for American Values, the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Families Northwest of Redmond, Washington, and the Georgia Family Council use an estimate of lost tax revenue as one of their estimates. There aren’t missing people who aren’t paying taxes. In fact, considering that married couples get tax breaks, we are probably making more money on people not getting married. Stupid.

How much do we pay for abstinence only sex-ed? $206 million according to the ACLU. Maybe we would have less out of wedlock children if we changed that. The real issue here isn’t if the pregnancy comes with a marriage; the issue is if the pregnncy is planned or not. How much money do we lose a year to poor families who really couldn;t afofrd another child but got pregnant and had one anyway? Unplanned pregnancies are much more likely to end up in a situation where welfare has to become involved. Marriage doesn;t fix that.

How does the government think that it is going to be able to support marriages? That’s asinine. Texas spends $15 million on marriage education. Now there is some tax money I wish my mom could get back.

The fact is that the wole framing of this article is unfiar. Single parents cost us $112 billion? That’s called the social saftey net and it’s been an integral part of every developed country since the turn of the last century. We need to take care of kids regardless of whether or not we think their parents made a bad decision. Furthermore, in there areticles there’s always some sort of assumption that children from these families will inevitably end up on the dole. Stupid

On why it isn’t Easy Being Green

So you know those people who wear their environmentalism as a badge, like they want some sort of recognition for being progressive and saving our planet? Yeah, on the spectrum of environmentalists I’m on the other end.

Not that I don’t care about the Earth. I do. But instead of getting some sort of rush taking in my recycling I feel a certain amount of …guilt isn’t the right word, but it’s close enough.

I think it may be guilt that I wasn’t doing it before. Guilt that five years ago I tripple bagged groceries for the hell of it, drove all the time without thinking, and aided the death of my planet.

Now I feel like I should keep my environmentalism on the DL so as to not look like a huge hypocrite. Also, my family thinks I’m a hippy lesbian type. So this wouldn’t help my case.

I have organic sheets. I carry canvas grocery bags around as purses, just in case I go to the store. I drink organic milk and eat organic apples. I even have organic peanut butter (eew).  I’m trying to get into eating locally grown and manufactured goods.

But if you ask me about any of this I will deny it. I’m a closeted environmentalist

On How Celebrities Become Detatched From Reality:

Hee hee hee. People are crazy!

I think my favorite may be Mariah Carey. Although they’re all good.

And, as usual, I’m convinced Lily Allen and I are the same person.

On Why People Should be Grateful for Those Who Came Before:

Listen to This

So, I was wasting time in statistics listening to Soul Position and this song really struck me. He talks about the difficulties the black community is having in adjusting to their new status in society. Particularly the strange fact that older people who were deeply involved in the civil rights movement are juxtaposed with young kids trying to be thugs.

It occurs to me that this is a similar phenomenon to what is occuring in the female sphere. I know that the civil rights struggles are very different for race and gender. It’s a strange fact that both groups are coming mainstream at about the same time, and in the area of assimilation they have similar challenges.

As far as the gender struggle goes, it is amazing to me that 1950’s housewives, women executives who are pressed against the glass ceiling, and Paris Hilton are all in the same group. The same group I belong to.

What is so frustrating is that women of my generation have forgotten that we couldn’t have the lives we enjoy now without the people who fought for it AND WHO ARE STILL ALIVE! No wonder the feminist organizations are worried about their futures; young people think the fight is over.

Clearly it isn’t. The game has changed. Along with changing rights and roles for women came changes in family, corporate America, and homosexual politics. We don;t have the counter culture that African Americans have developed, simply because we can’t really withdraw from society. The only people who can are lesbians, to a certain extent. For the most part, women need men, and men need women

Enough time hasn’t elaplsed for us to take our rights for granted. Despite the sucess of Hillary Clinton, the wage gap has increased. Women have a much higher risk of contracting AIDS. Poverty is quickly becoming feminized. Definitions of homosexuals are almost always exercises in defining masculinity and its corrolary. I’m sick of it.

Don’t wear your skirts so short. Don’t let yourself become a sexualized thing and lose your humanity. It’s not liberating to reduce yourself to tits and ass. Don’t define yourself by the man in your life. Don’t rely on a free ride. Someone will love you for who you actually are.

God it’s just so frustrating.

On why the United States shouldn’t throw stones:

If anyone thinks that the US has our shit together, and should be spreading peace or whatever to the rest of the world read this.

Good thing Romney got out of the race I guess, because this cannot bode well for Mormons.

On why I’m glad I wasn’t ACTUALLY dating my father:

EEEWWW EEEEEWWW EEEEEEEEWWW

What the fuck kind of hick place is South Australia? Apparently it puts the American South to shame. We just have cousin weddings.

As a daughter who has little contact with my own father, I can attest that no matter what your dad is not sexy!!! Oh man, its so hot how he has kids and then doesn’t talk to them for 30 years. What kind of weird narcissism is involved in this kind of relationship?

UPDATE: I just remembered that I have an Australian uncle no one has ever met, and that guy looks an awful lot like my grandpa… I could have a cousin/aunt!

On The Lansing Amish:

Spotted: Two Amish ladies sitting down to dinner at Theio’s at 11:30 P.M. as I was leaving.

Are the Amish allowed out that late at night? What do you think their story is? What brought these Mennonite women to the East Side for a midnight snack?

On Cow-Human Babies:

Scary Scary Scary

Um, what the fuck? I don’t even know what to make of this. The reproductive rights camp better get their shit in order. Soon!

I don’t even know what I should think about this. I read about this kind of stuff in Future Perfect like a year ago, but I had no idea they were actually doing this. A mixture of awe and horror is what I’ve settled on.

On Cheap Michigan Hookers:

So why was the $150 dollar prostitute who serviced Debbie Stabenow’s husband arrested, but he wasn’t? He’s the one who ran his big mouth in the first place.

Debbie should try to get Alycia Lorraine Martin pardoned. Free Alycia Lorraine!